Ajusting means for cross-head slippers.



PATENTED MAY'IZ, 1903.

F. H. BLANDING. I

ADJUSTING MEANS FOR GROSS HEAD SLIPPERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1902.

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INK/EN ER WITNESSES UNITED STATES,

Patented May 12, 1,903..

PATENT OFFICE.

FORREST H. BLANDING, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIS DODD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. I

ADJUSTING MEANS FOR CROSS-HEAD 'SLIPPIERSI.

, SPECIFICATION forming as of Letters 1 atent no. 72'7,7ee;aate'a 1vra '12, 1903.

I Application filed March 10, 1902. Serial No. 97,427. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FORREST H. BLANDING, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented'certain new and useful Improvements in Adjusting Means for Cross-Head Slippers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The present invention is designed more especially for use in connection with crossheads of steam-engines,-the object being to provide tightening-locks for the adjustingnuts, which compensate for the wear of the slippers or shoes of the cross-heads, whereby.

the adj usting-nuts are positively held locked in adjusted position, thereby preventing back working thereof during the operation of the cross-head.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a portion of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the cross-head attached to the piston-rod and piston of asteamengine; Figs. 2 and 3,-en1arged detail views in part section of the cross-head, illustrating the position of the improved locking means for the adjusting-nuts; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional top plan view on line a; 00, Fig. 2 of the drawings, illustrating one of the slippers or shoes and the adjusting-nut locked thereto.

The numeral 1 is used to indicate the crosshead proper, consisting of a box-casting of' From this cross-head,

any suitable material. projects the boss 2, which is bored out and to which is securely fastened the piston-stem 3 of piston 4. the bored-out boss. The cross-head is also provided with bosses 5, which stand at right angles to boss for the piston rod. These bosses 5 are turned true, and upon same the adjusting bushing-nuts 6 are fit snugly.

The adjustable bushing-nuts are formed with exterior threads 7 and screw into the internally-screw-threaded seat 9 of the slippers or shoes 10. These slippers or shoes prior to the seat?) being screw-threaded to receive the screw-threaded adj Listing-nuts 6 have a longitudinal bore 11 drilled or reamed therein to admit of a tapered pin or bolt 12. After the pin or bolt 12 is inserted the screw-threadmeans of the nuts 14 being screwed thereon,

This stem preferablyscrews into ed seat 9 is cut in each shoe or slipper, in the boring of which a portion 13 of the pin or bolt 12 is cut away, thereby forming a thread thereon, with which the threads of the adjusting-nuts engage. Upon the completion of the screw-threaded seat the pin or bolt 12 is removed, and its bore or hole within which it fits is reamed out or slightly enlarged, per-' mitting the tapered-pin or bolt to seat itself farther in than when the thread was out thereon. When the pin. or bolt is again inserted, its smaller end 13, which is screw-threaded, projects slightly beyond the bore or opening 11 through which it fits. The adjusting-nuts 6 being screwed into their seats will engage the threads cut on the tapered pins or bolts. If the nuts 14: be then screwed onto the projecting end of the tapered pins or bolts, the same will be drawn inward, so as to tightly impinge againstthe adjusting-nuts and to firmly bind same and hold them against movement.

As the wearing face or sliding surface 15 of the slide shoes or slippers 10 become worn the tapered pins or bolts 12 are loosened and the bushing-nuts 6 unscrewed, thus forcing the slippers or shoes 10 outward, increasing the general diameter, as desired. The lock pins or bolts 12 are then drawn tight by thereby locking the adjusting bushing-nuts 6 and maintaining the adjustment made.

By means of the described lock pin or bolt a positive adjustment may be givento the parts and danger ofthe same wearing loose is obviated.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be protected by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a cross-head having laterally-projecting bosses, of externallyscrew-threaded nuts fitted upon said bosses, of slides or shoes havinginternally-screwthreaded seats within which the externallyscrew-threaded nuts work so as to adjust the slippers or shoes vertically to compensate for wear of their surfaces, longitudinally-movable lock-bolts which engage with the screwthreaded nuts to hold the same against move- I00 ment, and means for tightening or loosening the lock-bolt.

2. In combination with a cross-head having slides or shoes adj nstably fitted thereto whereby they may be moved to compensate for the wear of their surfaces, nuts for adjusting said slides or shoes, a tapering bolt or pin screw-threaded at one portion of its diameter and adapted to engage said nuts to hold them in fixed position and a nut on said belt or pin by which it is tightened or loosened.

3. The combination with a cross-head, of bosses projecting therefrom, externallyscrew-threaded adjusting-nuts fitted to said bosses, cross-head slippers engaged by the adjustable nuts and held thereby to the cross-head, of means for locking the slippers FORREST H. BLANDING.

Witnesses:

N. A. ACKER, D. B. RICHARDS. 

